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mm mmmx a m w oazftte 007 Cotton 17 1-2 Cents VOL. XLIII. NO. GASTON I A. N. C, SATURDAY AFTERNOON MARCH 11, 1922. SINGLE COPY S CENTS YOUNG MAN IN5IMLYTryonHighSchool,TheResultof KILLED BY TRAIN NO. 15'Neighborhood William Redd, Whose Home I Believed to Be at Colum- bus, Ga.f Stepped in Front . of Southern Passenger Train Here This Morning and Was Instantly Killed Compan ion Had Narrow Escape. William Redd, aged about 35, believ ed to be a resident of Columbus, Ga., was struck and instiuitly killed about 8:30 o'clock this morning by southbound Southern passenger train No. 15 at a point near the Mutual Mill just west of the city, Kedd's traveling companion, William Bateman, aged Tl, had a nar . row escape from death, jumping from the track just in time to Have his life, liodd's head was badly crushed, his right foot was amputated and his body was otherwise badly mutilated. The body was removed to tin Ford Undertaking Company's place where it is being held ponding the receipt ot in ctructions from the family of the dead man, efforts now being under way to lo cate them. Kcdd and Batemau, it is stated by the latter, arrived iu Gastonia yesterday af ternoon. They are cotton mill opera tives and were looking for work. Hate man had fallen in with Kcdd somewhere along the line and knew nothing about him except that he was from Columbus, Go., and that he was also out looking for a job. They spent lust night with a family at the Mutual Mill. Both men, it is stated, had their eyes on an approaching northbound freight train. They started to ross the tracks froib the northern to the southern side and failed to notice the approaching passenger train. As a result llcdd stcp H'd from in front of the freight only to be instantly killed by the passenger train. Buteman saw the passenger train I just iu time to avoid bcinv; struck him- j aelf. I Agent McKce of the S:uth.-r;i at once got into communication with 1 ho an -j ii l s ,.i I : tr....t ... t.. murines ill v.oiniiiniis in .in i it in i ii' iu- i cate the voting man "s faini'y but at tli time of going to press had not to do so. Bateman stated that Kcdd he was uniunmc.1. DALLAS WINS WESTERN Defeats Bessemer City by Score of 28 to 16 To Play Belmont High School For County Championship Next Week in Three Games. Dulla high school won the western championship of the county from Besse mer City high svhool J-'riday on the Armory court by a scon afternoon of L'S to 16. liot'h teams played a line game am the contest was hard fought. The first j half ended with Bessemer City lending i 1.1 to 10. The second half belonged to j iJallns. They scored IS points to their opponents' three in tliM session and toj the Dallas guards, the two I'asour bovs fcocS the credit. Capt. Wayne I'asour played the best game of his lite and time! and again broke up Bessemer City for-' inations that were headed lor the basket. His running mate, the other l'n.v.iui demon at bringing the ball up floor to the forwards. Faintr ! For Bessemer Citv 1'celer and on played the best garni . Johnson, the1 much talked of star -for Bessemer City, failed to show any great prowess. Mr. i W. G. (iaston, as referee, handled the: game very capably and there wen1 no! signs of dissatisfaction on either side. For the championship of the county, i Dallas nnd Belmont will play three games, one each on the home ioiirt- of each team and a third game in Castonia. The first game ill be played at Dallas next Wednesday. March l." at 4 o'clo the second at Belmont Friday aftern -on at 1 o'clock and the third, if necessary at 1 Gastonia, tint unlay evening, Mrch Is at j 8 oVlock in the Armory. DAVIDSON GLEE CLUB GIVES FINE CONCERT I ,, ii m i i ai 1 College Musical Club, Al- I though Short Several Mem-i bers, Renders Fine Program i . r,.i Q-i l r n a vcuiiai i-ii w i V uva I Selections and Drama Feature. Burlesque Despite the inclement weather and ai ireek's suTfcit of counter attractions a' fairly good sized crowd greeted tlie j Davidson College Glee club at the Central' rhool auditorium Friday evening and, were treated to a urogram of rare ability.1 Owing to sickness nnd other interrup-j tions, live members of the g'ee club were unable to come and the program wnsi nomewhat abbreviated. None of the or-j chestra. was able to come. Five string-j e4 instruments and the piano formed the1 only instrumental accompaniment. In spite of these handicaps, the college! Loys. however, gave a fine concert. The! been aide U Mill .... i "nr'i!n ! f"u ,"; ."""VK"'-: -.."- -Mlit ,,roof of his chiirKt.B ,hat vice exists bounded in popular and classical selec- , . , of tions i monologues, quartet, and ensembl- B,ifh aro ehil)reil of Vealthv West Knd numbers. A .comedy skit, "A RomMijij . Drama.'' in which were intro.Iu.-ed rhp .. wa number of local hits, brought down thei ,,.. ., ,.. x. viii.r' Iiouse. The work of MWrs.Mcl-ad.Mc.!,.1arif, ,!at rvi,N.H(.; tl,at girl Jcadiy and imgan as .sfss ,a..jr -,.u- mendable. The concert pices of the Spinner. was given under the ldgd school unuual. " THE WEATHER North Carolina, fair tonight sad Sun day; colder in east portion tonight. Formally Presented To Patrons! Rural High School Built by People of Cherryville Township Through Community Co-operation Located Near Site of Historic Tryon Court house Is the High School for Sunnyside, Mt. Beulah, Kiser's, Lander's Chapel and Fair view Trucks Bring Children Six and Seven ! Miles Fine Farming Community Citizens Are Progressive. ! From a community iu which 25 years iigo illiteracy and ignorance, poor farms, bad roads, one-teacher schools, drinking and neighborhood dissensions prevailed, to the most progressive rural section in Gaston county is in brief the story of that part of Cherryville township sur- rounding Tryon High School which was I formally dedicated Thursday afternoon to the citizens of that section by the County Board of Education. Instead of I one-teacher frame gchoolhouses there are j now handsome brick buildings in every part of the district, employing two or j .more teachers for the education of the: ! children up to the high school. For the' latter there is a centrally located, mod-i I ernly equipped high school in whic'h'oll! i the high school branches are taught, in- eluding music and domestic science, thus : giving the children alf the advantages! of a city high school. Trucks convey the children to the school from every corner of the district, soino coining as far as six or seven miles to the school. Instead' better chools. They wanted to do away of the red muddy roads which :!5 years! with their antiquated, one-teacher schools ago on a day like Thursday was would j in which all the pupil? from the tiny be have been impassable, there is a stretch giumrs to the grown boys and girls of hard Burface road straight through (Continued on page six) MRS. CBENGKAIN RESTS AFTER GROSS-EXAMINATION (By Tho Associated l'ress.) , I.OS A.VOKLKS, Calif., March II. ladaly ime Obcncliain, in her cell in the county jan, rested ioiav rroin me orucni of two successive days on the witness stand in her trial for the murder of J . Helton Kennedy, her sweetheart. It is expected the state will devote considerable time Monday to cross-questioning the defendant on events immedi ately leading to the slaying of the young broker iu her presence in Beverly Glen, August fl, last . Already she has been quizzed rigidly concerning her relations with the three men who have occupied the most prom inent places in her life Kalph J . Ob cncliain, her former husband, present suitor and member of her counsel; Ar thur C. Hurch, of Kvnuston, Ills., in dicted with her for the. murder of Ken- nedy, and the young broker hini.-elf. 1 . . BANDITS GET $30,000 PAYROLL FROM CLERKS BKOWNKVILLK. l'A., March 11. j Albert Fleming, manager of the W. .1. Itaiuey lie Co. store at A'lison, Fa., and, C. (). Kvnns, thief clerk, were robbed1 of npi-niximntely .;((I,II00 the company's mine payroll, by six bandits who held up j a trolley car three miles from bore to - ! day. Khner Hill, win accompanied ! Fleming and Fvans as guard, w;n shot ivas'bi'd not seriously wounded. The ban the'dits escaped ill ail automobile. The car had stopped at a lonely spot i lien the men. each armed with a pistol,' (jo! aboard. Two covered the moturmaii and the others opened liie on the party itli the money. Seizing the bag, they .jumped into an antomibile which had drawn up beside the trolley car, and drove off into the hills. 1 YOUNG ROOKIE BREAKS TRAINING CAMP RULES, (Bv The Associaxcn Fress.,1 WASHINGTON, March 11. Clyde ( Milan, new manager of the Washington club, gave notice that 'lie places a higpi 'alue on discipline wnen ne served an in-; letmite suspension yesicrua.v mi i.euu. 'Goslin, the young Columbia, S. I., re-! iiuit whose performance las season had; . . I ... C - I 1 1 II. jearned nun a regular omneiu ucnu ni i ! this year. Milan, who said lie took tlie- action regretfully and only after every effort to keep doslin within the ropes at the Nationals' Tampa. Fla.. training; camp, declared the young outfielder had , . lirokt.n ,,r:,etically every training ru'e 0f t. eamp. " Gnslin later had made no moo to secure reinstatement. j 0 j n 1 St. Louis rolice Charges That Vice Exists Among Wealthy High School Students fBy The Associated Presa.' i ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 1 1 .Victor . J. Miller, president of the board of po- ; lice commissioners, was prepared to ap- : penr at a spe-ial meeting of the board 1 of education here this afternoon to sub- stuileiifg of this sch.H.I bad formed a se jrnt organimt ion which rtHjuircsl of ' al I applicants for meniliership that they "ejmust have violated the moral code. A (similar organisation existed for boys, statement. -Mr. Miller charged an his which was made at a community mcet- nig. Mr. Miller said he had received a numlx-r jf telephone messages an4 writ ten communications which had eouvinc- Co-operation, Is the section, with fine topsoil roads radia-i ting through every neighborhood, and 1 : good for travel every day of the year, j Instead of pour, nornout, hillsides 'called farms this community enjoys the I reputation of being the best farming j section of the county. Even now the I fields are green with cover crops of rye jnnd clover and verdant fields of when'.' 1 and oats dot the landscape in every di rection. The largest single wheat grow er in the county lives in this section.' Instead of neighborhood dissensions and quarrels, the people are as a unit when; j if comes to their community. The eon- Kolidntion of these schools is evidence of l this fact. Churches and schools' are; lighted witli electric lights, procuiedi ; through community effort . A eoinmuni-' lty fair from this wet ion has taken first' prize in the county fair every year. ; One year ag the people of t?lis com munity appeared before the Gaston Coun ty Board of Education and asked for KILLED WHILE SEATED NEAR WINDOW READING (By The Associated Press.) IUVEKSIDK, N. .1.. March 11. John Theodore Bruneii, amusement promoterit and owner of the Doris and Ferris cir cus, was shot ami killed last night while Heated near a first tlcor window of his home reading. A full charge from a shotiun struck him behind the left ear. There is no clue to who fired the shot. According to Burlington county au thorities today three men were seen by neighbors to paik a motor car near the Bruen home just before the shooting. RATES WILL KILL MELON j BUSINESS SAYS SEN. SMITH1 WASHINGTON". March II. Fresent freight rates "will cluvk if they do not destroy the watermelon business of tieor i gia," former Senator Hoke Smith, of; that State, declared today in orguing' for Southern waterilielpn at the Inter-I state Commerce Commission's inquiry in-1 to general transportation levels. j "If the freight rates on watermel-: . ons." asserted Senator Smith, "are low-1 I erod to a figure -which will leave a profit ! i for the growers it is probable that this1 . business will increase and be profitable' to tile growers. ' ' j Mr. Smith nsnerteil that melons are; shipped during periods when railroads j rave normally the lightest volume of traf-l lie and require no special .equipment, con j sequently from the economic point of j view, he added, the railroads should de-j crease uw charges. I Watermelons, manufactured iron and I steel, cast iron pipe and building mater- j ials, Mr. Smith declared .are given iden-! 1 ticnl rates uder freight classifications j and this of itself he considered unfair.; Fnless reductions are granted by gum- mer, he said, including, "railroads can ' not look further tn any considerable ' freight from Georgia out of melons." i AUTO WITH TWO MEN IN 30 FEET OF WATER. ! ST. AFGFSTI N K. Fla.. March II. - Tic bodies of two men, fiodfrey Fos I ter, loi-aJ cigar manufacturer, ami Jo s"ph Ortagus, lo-al merchant, are be. j lievi-d to be nia small closed car which j plunged into ;:o feet of water through an open draw iu the bridge between I Ana'tasia island ami St. Augustine ear ! ly today. Foster ami Ortagus left a beach resort shortly after midnight for St. Augustine i and' the draw had been opened to allow I a small motor vess d to pass. Attempts' o raise the machine during the morning were fruitless. ( The men were believed to have been a'oue as only they were in the machine, when it lef" the beach . I -O Commissioner cd him that his 'statement was not strong enough. " Membera of th" sidlool board and heads of all high schools have demand- ed that Mt. Miller bring before t.ieia all facts on which he ba-ed his chareeM Thes officiiils were unanimous in the-ir criticism of Mr. Miller's failure to have brought this matter to their attention 1h foro making bis charges at an ojen meeting. Governor A . M . Hyde, a strong ad vocate of bettering Missouri's education al system, has communicated with Mr. Miller by long di- taiice telephone, but the conversation was not divu'ged. Gov ernor Hyde issued a (statement at Jef ferson City last night, in which he ap proved of the demand of the school board for substantiation of flic charge. The Governor is expected to reach the city tomorrow to discuss the mattef. with llr. Miller ami members of the board of cuu catiou. " -,: - l '.. '- -.' ' - ''. SAY RADIOPHONE ACTORS MUST BE COMPENSATED NEW YORK. March 11. Appre ciative, but non-paying, wireless ama teurs, who have been sitting at home and listening to world famous enter tainers, face an edict of the Actors' Equity Association that such perform ers must be paid for their work. Announcement is made that th counsel of the association has ruied thet the radiophone is competing with the theater, and that those who talk or sing in the transmitting apparatus must be compensated. In the last few months there have been numberless free concerts, free stage performances, free lectures and other features supplied to the own ers of radiophones. The ether waves carrying these entertainments have been picked up hundreds, even thous ands, of miles distant by receiving "sets," which are as common ac home brew outfits. THREE MILLION CONTRACT SOUTHERN POWER PUNT Rheinhardt - Dennis Company Will Construct Dam Work: Now Starting Development to Be Second Largest Yetj Undertaken by This Compa-1 ny. j CIIAIM.OTTI'. March I . Contract for the building '.' the SO, Mini Imrscpnw- ' er hydro electrical p'aot cf the Southern Tower Company at Mimi'tuin Island ha . j been awarded to t he Khine'in rl I h-niiis ; Company, of Charleston. VV. Ya.. at a price to aggregate around f .'..(IUO.iiihi, ,!' ficia's of th ompnny announced Fridav I afternoon in an authorized .statement from local offices. The construction uork is nlieadv un der way. Houses have been erei t d for officials of the contracting company, and other preliminary steps have been ken . Tie- building of this plan! represents the mo:! colossal contract undertaking yet started by the Southern I'ower Com puny, with the exception of luiildi ig the impounding plant at lii idgewater . I; is to be the second largest power devel opment which the company has ever con structed, its production to be Sii.noii I horsepower of electrical energy, or ex j ceeded only by the capacity of the plant ! which the company built and maintains now at Wateree, S. C., which has a ca pacity of S5.IMMI horsepower. The dam at .Mountain Island will have a " i i c . , I f Ml feet . j The site of th'1 development is alm.'-t :o. ' sfot formerly occnpiiU by the , M.. i.: . ' I laud i-oltou mills, sucpt a j way in 1 floods which caused the ( 'a tawba rhi i i;i July l!M'i to work dam I age of million ; through Carolina tevct-i ry. It is three miles fioni Ml. Holly from which place a spur track lias a1 ready been built and is now being operat ed in Ketting construction materials to the site of 1 lie development. It is estimated that it will require iin years for the construction of this devel opment although company official, have let the contract concern know that they desire the plant to he turned over for occupancy as quickly as postal Che company proposes aNo at an early date the developm to I )l-g : 11 tit of an other plant at Great Falls, S ' . , w here an additional tjO.OOli horsi mw de eloped . -r will be Heavy Rains. (By Toe Associated Pre MACON. Ga., March 11. rains which fell in this seci ion caused the Ocmulgee river to The river was '2'2.'i or nearly above flood stage this morning still rising. ss.) Heavy yj-sterday overllow . four feet and was Cotton Market CLOSING BIDS ON THE NEW YORK MARKET. - ( 'ottoll fll- JuU l".::o; -.4 7. NHW YOJLK, March 11. turcM closed steadv : March 17. is; May H.O. October lti.tiT ; December HI TODAY'S COTTON MARKET i Cotton seed . . Strict tn Good ...5lc 17 Vic Middling Next Week's Weather. iRv The Associated press. 1 WASHINGTON, March ll.- Wenth er predictions for the week beginning Monday are: South Atlantic and Fast Gulf States: Considerable chiodiness, occasional rains; normal temperature. TRAINS IN RUSSIA RUN EIGHT TO TEN DAYS LATE MOSCOW, Feb. 16. Americans who fume when trains arrive late at their destination should come to Russia and learn patience. - The Tash kent express has just come in 21 days late, a new record even for Rus sia where trains eight to 10 days be hind time are common. The locomotive of the Tashkent express broke down in the Ural moun tains and the train was stalled there three weeks until it could be re paired. Sir Benjamin Robertson, an Eng lishman who had been on an inspec tion tour of the famine distista in tha Volga and who was a passenger on the delayed train was informed that 25 passengers died of typhus, cold and hunger during the delay. UNDERWOOD DECLARES THE FOUR-POWER TREATY IS "REAL TREATY 0 F PEACE" OF THE LATE DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE DEAN OF RADCLIFFF. WHO WILL HAVE FULL C1IARCE OF BRYN MAWil IN FALL 6 " - ' i- : ) il j t ; Dr. Marlon W. Paik ha? boon elected ! to take full charge of Biyn Mawr Col lege upon the retirement of I)r M. C. i i Thomas after years of soivice. Dr. : 1 Park, v-ho is now dean of Kadciibe Col-! ' lcc, will take charge of Bryn Mawr in Sptunbcr. The new president, boin in! 1 Gloversville, N. Y., comes of distjn-' ; guished New England ancestry. Her I degr;;s of bachelor of arta, master of ; arts and doctor of philosophy weri a-1 warded by Biyn Mawr. She ;3 16 years' old. i SNAKE H0S1 TURTLE Patagon'an Animal Ilaa Excit ed Curiosity of Scientists Had Head of Horse and Neck Thirty Feet Long Lives in Ice and Snow. CKv The Associated Pre; F HII.AHKI.FI1IA. March 1 I. Tin p'esiosanrau monster seen in Pataip'iiia, according to retioits from the Buenos1 Aires zoological gar ileus, Ts not a ni.Uh, snake or a turtle, in the belief of Lieut. Com mander ( ). It. Bivilaqiia, now at the Philadelphia navy yard. The naal officer said to day that he bad si en a meiistroiis ial off t !i coast of Patagonia Id years semMcil descriptions if id seen recently by an ijin I hat re that report Kiiglishmau same loeal- Siiefliehl in It V. I.:en1. I c ilaqua. who is command er of tin- I'. S. S. Kaweah. said that during l!M'ii while in the Straits of Magellan about ."ii'i yalds off the coast of Patagonia, he saw tie- mon ster one afternoon. The vidbil- ity was hi: could have ' ' I v. a i -c: the the and saw a splash into s.h ire. A i ma I appe.-ii which the looked on! "Tic he horse, and feet Inn::, cause ti;rl! flint length it w as n ii do not I s e ;!. and 1 be'-ll llliri lo not ak.-n, ' belicM. I l;e said, e toward a .sil,-ish Mining the s's r- and I he, Ue ice l'il I he Sea flo Moment later -. i al tic boulder had towaid lie. a I was like the neck ;i It was not s do not ha I am eipia a :nike, he, in Mil ice aa -le boulder the roekv i rge llll pom f lolll pped and t nal fill a tint ..- lie k o Iv sure ause si 1 sa e,v. tha iak. U. S. DEMAND FOR REPARATION '; PROVOKES SURPRISE IN PARIS PA I IMS March 11.- The d- niand In to IX the i the ' pell: I fore i Vok. ('idled States for reimbursement extent of L'H onii nun for the of its forces in the l.'hiii' lan I b, any reparations I sin prise and pi are paid h pro- rplexitv in French j official - j mi n t I : new spa ! A Fi i Americ: moment ! Cannes circles. Tic comment in re is also some several morning H is. eiich semi oflicia! says that t'ie in I'aim comes ex.-.eiiy at tuo when the accord ba ed on the pi eject was about to be realized, ami th. it it leinls to tlestroy Tlie Whole system of reparations po laboriously I'liilmrateil by tin Allied experts. The pcho do Paris declines it is un doubtedly ton late tu give the Fnited States its share of the one billion gold ' marks paid by Germany on August .'!0 I hist, as P.cigium and Faigland already' have received their allotments. The Al-! lies certainly cannot refuse to give the , United States its due, the newspaper adds, but "this quest ion must Ik1 deter- j t i... ...:i:i.. : . t : . mined or what utmtv is an American army on the Khine if it isn't in politi cal co-oieration with the Allied govern ments,''' The Matin, thinks the American de maud creates a paradoxical sit tuition in Jaw, -" because '.the United States is .at Considers Pact In Same Spirit Which Prompted His Vote For Versailles Treaty and League ON WATTS IS UNJUST Governor Thinks Supreme Court Criticism Uncalled for Colonel Watts Would Have no Right to Obviate an Act of the General Assem bly. , (Itiock liarkley, in Charlotte Observer ) j l.'Al.KllllI. March in. - The attack ( of ( hief Justice Clark on Tax Commb i sioncr Watts seems to Governor Mori i j 'on an expression of resentment "lie caiee he would not declare an ad ef th ' ! general assembly um -onstitirioniil and al I low exemptions which the general ;,hsciii j bly di.l not allow. ' ' I The governor declined to give out any statement on the action of the supremo i court and the attack of Chief Justice : Clark on an exis-ntive department of the ! government . Yesterday's prospects of one or nunc statements in reply to tlie cinei jusuce men lonny, and lieyou I a brief comment ley tin- governor during ii conver ation little was heard on the "supreme court sensation." When asked fur a statement. Gowr nor Morrison said he did not desire to comment on either the opinion of the 'court or of Chief Justice Clnrk "at this (time, " but he did classify the critii ism of Colonel Watts as "uncalled for.'' "The general lis einbv of North Car i olimi levied an income lax on all in comes in North ( nrolinn, allowing certain specified exi niptious among the exemp tions being salaries received from federal nil leers, but did not nflow exemptions lor salaries received from state officers "I am rather surprised at the criti cism of Colonel Walts because he would not declare an act of the general assein- bly unconstitutional and allow exeinii lions which the general assembly did not allow. It is very unjust. " The governor added that declaring an ac of the general assembly unconstitu tional "is such a serious matter that it 1 1 ins to have made some of the judges ami their friends w ry mud that they had to do it, instisad of poor Colonel Watts doing it for them. Kxecutive officers have no judicial power, and they ought to excuse Mr. Watts far refusing to ac commodate t hem. ' ' Significant, in view of the courts opin ion, is a ruling of Federal IJevenue Col lector Grissom that Federal Judge K. Y . Webb must pay an income tax be cause the law. was enacted prior to his as iilllplioii of that office. Mr. Grissom recently declined to accept an income tax pn. incut from Judge II. G. Con nor. holding that no law existed under w hu h lie could be taxed . ; POSTAL SAVINGS INDICATE i IMPROVED BUSINESS t By The Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. March 11. Indica tion of iinpiovcnient in the general in-1 Inslrial situation was seen by officials in' the report today of February postal sav ngs transactions, showing a slight in-, i rease in deposits over withdrawals fori the first month since January, PJl. The! total net deposit on March 1, was shown' to be approximately .1 l.yUMl.llCm. Sub-1 stantial increase in deposits was reported generally by the larger pnstoflices, it was said, lint these were largely offset by the decreases at the smaller offices. Consid eralbe improvement in the latter was ex po, ted, however, with the approach of spring. the same time responsible to and inde- , pendent of the Allies responsible in its claims, ami independent iu its politics! regarding Germany with which it lias ai s, 'pirate treaty.'' The newspaper de-i dares that if the Fnited States persists in tJiis claim the Helgian priority and j the sums the French government ex- ! pcets are appreciably discounted. i The Allied finance ministers met today' tn con ider t'ie situation created by thS memorandum handed to the reparations ! commission yesterday by Roland W. I Hoyden, tie representative of the United I States with the commission, asking the! payment of the ti'41.ini(i.ono. The m iiiorandiim. the text of which was made public, states that the cost of the Ann nran army of occupation up to May 1, IP.!, was about JH.tKMI.OuO. It sets forth that t ie Allied govern ments with the exception perhaps of Great Pritaiii, had received payment for their armies of occupation, and that probably the British a'so was covered by 5 .. .1: ... 1 preceuing arrangement. Therefore the memorandum states, "the I'nited i States counts' upvu obtaining integral payments for th? cost to May 1, with interest, lefore any part of the German payments are distributed for repara tions, or other objects. " : TREATY AS OTHER THAN ALLIANCE TO ARBITRATE Alabama Senator Declares That Real Issue is Whether United States Is Ready to Give Its Sanction , to Ar rangement For Peace by Mutual Understanding or to Continue Opportunity For War. (Py The Associated Tress.). WASHINGTON, J,imi 11. De scribing the four power Pacific treaty as "the real treaty of peace" of tho .ir.ns conference, Senator Underwood, of Alabama, the Democratic, (Senate leader, ..ml ii member of the American delega tion to the conference, told tho Senate today that he would voto for the pact's ratification in the same spirit which ac tuated him to supjwrt the treaty of Ver sailles and the League of Nations'. i I he real issue, the democratic, leader viecland, was whether the United States was ready to give its sanction to an ar rangement for "peace by mutual umur standing " or desired to continue the opportunity for war that has threatened us in the past two decades." Mr. Underwood asserted that ho did not regard the treaty as an alliance,' but' added that even if it were, and were founded on arbitration rather than force. 1 I he would support it. To argue, on the other hand, that because it was not based on force it was valulegg was declared by the Alabama Senator to bo reverting. to the philosophy of past ages. Recounting how lie had supported the I League of Nations, he said lio had ap-4 prrtaclicd the work of the arms confer ence ready to welcome any new effort to establish peace by international un derstanding rather than by the power of tli-' sword. ,, . --. " The four power treaty," lie continu ed, "represents a political settlement which undoubtedly was necessary before ' die treaty providing for the limitation of ii.i.aineiitii Wn signed that is if the agreement to limit armaments was in tended to mean more than a mere saving of money to the nations who had engaged in the wild race of building battleships. "The terms of the treaty clearly call for a conference to consider difficulties that may arise, just as the conference on the limitation of armaments was called in Washington some months ago. It is a conference in which all of the four pi c.ers must agree and nono of the pow-e-s- will be 1 ound iu advance in any way. In other words, the agreeiuets that are reached must be by tho unanimous con-1 sent of all. "The oponents of the ratification of this- treaty in the main appear to tase ; their objections cn two grounds, express ing positions that are opnosed one to the other. It is asserted that the treaty in t lied is an alliance between tho four gnat powers for offensive and defensive purposes, or, at least, it is contended we will be drawn into that position in the ' end and that wo may be forced into war within our consent. I maintain that there is nothing in the treaty itself that justifies such an interpolation being placed upon it; that an an agreement by :i man nr a nation to respect the rights of ids neighbors is an obligation that re-, files to his own conduct and docs not bind his to aggressive action because the other party to the contract, whoso ritrhts as agreed to respect, becomes in- 1 in ilillieiilties. Hut the question ig not left here. The Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate has moved a reservation to the : treaty, which beyond a doubt will be ac--copied by tin- Senate, which reads as fol lows : ' ' ' The United States Understands that under tlie statement in tho presumble, or under the terms of this treaty, there is o commitment to armed force, no alli ance., no obligation to join in any de fense. ' "When this treaty is ratified with (his understanding on the, part of our gou rament, what ground is left to those who contend the treaty is an offensive iind defensive alliance to stand uponf " Non that I can see. - "If the. Senate of the United 'States rati ties this pending treaty," Senator Underrwooil said, "I am hilly satisfied that there will disappear not only any real cause for war. but there will no long er exist the opportunity for war that has threatened us in the past two decades; and iienre will be established between the four great sea powers that now control the destinies of the Pacifie ocean. "As long as conditions were allowed to remain in the Far East as tin - have : existed for thi nanfe twn rivn.!es dun. erpr ltlrkt,l t.ehin.l im .llji.nf,. rt i. 1 hi 1 war clouds gathered when every nation al issue was raised. These conditions threatened our national security, for m long as our nag floats over the distiuj i-